Cellular immunity is a protective immune process that involves the activation of phagocytes, antigen-sensitized cytotoxic T cells and the release of cytokines and chemokines in response to antigen.

General ways to support your immune system include focusing on plant-based foods and maintaining good hand hygiene, but it is important to note that these haven’t been shown to benefit psoriasis ...

Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned that vaccine skepticism has eroded the importance of herd immunity in light of the measles outbreak in Texas, and put some of the blame on Health ...

The initial epicenter within a Texas Mennonite community highlights how declining vaccination rates can lead to rapid disease transmission. While some may believe that abstaining from vaccination ...

Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow,” the dialogue-free survival tale of a solitary cat’s journey that won both the Oscar and Golden Globe for best animated feature earlier this year, has been ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit for giving the human immune system a memory. Now, researchers at the ...

The new strain was found in Noxubee County, Miss. All of the roughly 46,000 birds either died or were euthanized after the infection spread. In another development, researchers reported that ...

The Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Novavax vaccines protect against many known variants of COVID-19. The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines offer immunity against COVID-19 for up to six months. To ...

Charlie Fleming has been given an immunity for the first nomination in the "Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition." In the latest episode aired Tuesday, the decision to give the immunity to ...

Measles can cause “immune amnesia,” which reduces the body’s defenses against other illnesses, such as flu and tuberculosis. This reduction in immunity can happen even if a person has been ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...